Clorinda

(in Jerusalem Delivered) A female knight who came from
Persia to oppose the Crusaders, and was appointed by Aladine leader of
all the Pagan forces. Tancred fell in love with her, but not knowing
her in a night attack slew her after a most dreadful combat. Before she
died she received Christian baptism at the hands of Tancred, who
mourned her death with great sorrow of heart. (Book xii.)

Senapus of Ethiopia (a Christian) was her father but her being born
white alarmed her mother, who changed her babe for a black child.
Arse'tës, the eunuch, was entrusted with the infant Clorinda, and as he
was going through a forest he saw a tiger, dropped the child, and
sought safety in a tree. The tiger took the babe and suckled, it after
which Arsetes left Ethiopia with the child for Egypt.